Project Initiation, Planning and Execution in PDF

PROJECT INITIATION,
PLANNING AND EXECUTION
Name of the Student
Name of the University

INTRODUCTION
• Project management software is used by the project manager for the
management of projects and offer feature such as creation of charts and
reports and sharing documents. The project management software are
also used for management of task, resource allocation, project planning
and enabling communication with teams. The selection of the right
project management software tool is important by looking at the
alternatives and analyzing the benefits and shortcomings of each (Cheng,
Fu and Chen 2016). The right PM software would have an impact on the
project success and help the project manager to complete the project on
time.

EVALUATION OF PROJECT
MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
• The following are the 5 project management software tools that are
evaluated for identification of their benefits and shortcomings.
• Monday.com
• Clarizen
• Celoxix
• Backlog
• Hive

EVALUATION OF MONDAY.COM
• It is considered as a great project
management software tool since it is has
performed lot of trimming over the typical
management tools and created a simple,
visually natural layout for the clarification
of the working sequence. The users of
Monday.com can attach or upload a file to
the card, mention tem member and make
comment (monday.com. 2020). A
dashboard is provide to the user for
reporting by collecting data and
improving the tracking of the project.
• However onday.com does not have the
complete set of tools for preparing
invoice and accounting but there are
other project management tools that
have the feature.

EVALUATION OF CLARIZEN
• It is an automation software that
has the enterprise grade and is
able to provide professional
service. It is designed for speeding
up the business and can be
integrated with the work, process
and content for increasing the
efficiency of the work
(Mkt.clarizen.com. 2020). It can
save ample time and speed up the
project. If there is repeated project
repeated process is need as the
workflow automation is powerful
and flexible.

EVALUATION OF CELOXIS
• It is a popularly used web passed
project management tool having the
feature of portfolio and project
management (Celoxis.com. 2020). It
is one of the most adopted tool by
the project managers and the
brands for example Rolex, virgin,
LG, HBO, etc.
• It have interactive gantt chart packs
for the work dynamicity's and team
that can be a geographically
distributed in different time zones,
part time resources, interim swaps
and the inter dependent projects.

EVALUATION OF BACKLOG
• Backlog has tracking and collaboration
feature that can help the software
development team to manage their
tasks with the inclusion of custom
fields, subtasks and checklists. It can
also be used as a bug tracker and
controlling the version of the system.
• Git repository support and SVN is
provided by Backlog that helps the
software developer to collaborate on a
code. Merge request, pull request and
inline comments are also provided.
• The application can also provide git
graphs, burnout charts and gantt chart
such that the project manager can
analyze the progress of the project at a
glance.

EVALUATION OF HIVE
• It is used as a project management
and collaboration tool that is used by
small team ranging from 10 to 500. It
has AI based analytic feature with
thousand of integration that can
created project views flexible. A
centralized platform is used for
streamlining the work and can be
used by team of different size (Hive.
2020). It can provide multiple option
to the companies depending on their
needs and style of work.

CONCLUSION
• It can be concluded from the presentation that the evaluation of the
multiple project management software helps in selecting the best project
management tool. It can provide a best work management tool for
spending less time and delivering faster work for the management of
client information, project and resources. For the small team specialized
tool can be great since it can work with niche requirement of the client.
The selection of the best project management tool helps in smart working
by sharing files with the team and improving the communication.

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